The Upper Saucon police Chief Robert Coyle's car sits outside the township home where several intruders Wednesday morning robbed the resident and may have abducted a woman who was there. The home invaders stole the resident's silver Mercedes, police said.

The Upper Saucon police Chief Robert Coyle's car sits outside the township home where several intruders Wednesday morning robbed the resident and may have abducted a woman who was there. The home invaders stole the resident's silver Mercedes, police said. (Frank Warner, The Morning Call)

Manuel Gamiz Jr., Of The Morning Call

A Mercedes-Benz stolen during an Upper Saucon home-invasion robbery was recovered Thursday in Allentown, but the township's police chief said the whereabouts of a woman who went missing after the robbery remains a mystery.

Upper Saucon police Chief Robert Coyle said the woman, whom he would only describe as being in her 30s, was either abducted or left willingly following Wednesday's robbery at a $1 million condo in the 5400 block of Boulevard Grand Cru. She was entered into the National Crime Information Center database as an endangered person, Coyle said.

The chief said the homeowner, a man in his 70s, described the woman as an employee of his who was helping him with a financial book he was writing. Her job included taking dictation and transcribing his notes, the chief said.

Lehigh County records show the homeowner is W. Russell Yurchak Jr., 73. The house is part of the Epernay subdivision, a neighborhood of million-dollar homes just east of Route 378.

The ordeal began when a woman came to the home around 11 a.m. Wednesday, knocked on the door and the homeowner answered. The woman asked for the man's employee, who was upstairs.

Around the same time, three to five men burst into the home, took the resident to the living room and held him at gunpoint, Coyle said. The robbery victim was not certain how many people came in, the chief said.

Some of the robbers went upstairs, where the employee was, and looked through other parts of the house, he said. The men then tied the resident's hands and left with his car, Coyle said.

Coyle said the resident said his employee was taken against her will. FBI agents assisted in the investigation.

The stolen car was found Thursday afternoon in downtown Allentown, Coyle said. The vehicle is being processed for evidence, he said.